Kari Tapio Leppänen is a Finnish comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 artist who has worked on the Phantom

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...

 comic since 1979. Leppänens career started in the magazine Sarjis. This was a magazine with only Finnish series. He wrote science fiction under the pseudonym Oskari. The Swedish comic strip

Comic strip

A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....

 publisher Semic

Semic Press

Semic Press is a publishing company owned by the Swedish Bonnier Group, and for a long time Sweden's largest comic book publisher through the purchase of competing publishers Centerförlaget 1969 and Williams förlag 1975...

 became aware of his work and offered him a job as a painter on the Phantom

The Phantom

The Phantom is an American adventure comic strip created by Lee Falk, also creator of Mandrake the Magician. A popular feature adapted into many media, including television, film and video games, it stars a costumed crimefighter operating from the fictional African country Bengalla.The Phantom is...

 series. He accepted the offer. Leppänen is still painting for the Phantom.

External links

• Kari Leppänen biography, Phantomwiki
• Kari Leppänen biografi Fantomet.org (in Norwegian)